Reminder: Ride of Silence tonight 7pm @ Farmers Market

[Kirk Westphal]

Hope you see many of you there.

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FB invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/305159244545409/

Event by Bicycle Alliance of Washtenaw

Ann Arbor Farmers Market

Today at 7 PM EDT

77°F Cloudy

Price: Free

Public  · Anyone on or off Facebook

Join us for a slow and silent ride. We ride in memory of the cyclists who have been injured or killed on public roads and in protest of car-centric legislation and infrastructure.

Everyone is invited. The route is about six miles and goes through downtown Ann Arbor. You are wanted and welcomed to ride for those who no longer can, regardless of skill level. Masks and helmets are required.

In particular, we'd like to honor several of the people from our community who have been killed this year, including Coleen Huling, Melissa Williamson, Jim Pagels and Thea Kantola. 

More about the worldwide Ride of Silence here: http://www.rideofsilence.org/

[Dharma Akmon]

I will be there!

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Dharma Akmon, PhD

Director of Project Management and User Support

Assistant Research Scientist

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research

University of Michigan

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[Bruce Geffen]

You know, I understand it is hard to believe, but there are some of us who don't have Social Media of almost any type.  It would have been helpful and beneficial if there was an official announcement that went out instead of just on Social Media.  I would have liked to have been able to participate in this event once again.

Bruce Geffen

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[Sam Firke]

Thanks Kirk for sharing this.  I read stories on the internet about Coleen, Melissa, Jim, and Thea - all were heartbreaking.  I appreciate all who coordinated or participated in the ride to remember them.

Ditto, Bruce re: Facebook events.  To anyone who finds themselves organizing an event in the future and wants to be inclusive of folks who don't use Facebook or other social media, I recommend gath.io, a free, open-source, privacy-respecting site: https://gath.io/.  No accounts needed because it's not tracking you and selling your data.

Sam

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[Nicholas Adams]

Just wanted to chime in to support the "let's post events somewhere other than Facebook" folks. I too would have liked to attend this event but didn't find out about it until too late.

Thanks,

Nick Adams

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[Ken Freeman]

I agree with Bruce.  It turned out I knew one of the organizers and he steered me, but it would all have been much easier jost to put it all in an email or posting, including the JPEG of the route plan.

Sam, I appreciate you have found a better app, but it's still an app. Email is much more universal.

On Thu, May 20, 2021 at 9:19 AM Sam Firke <samuel...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Sam Firke]

To clarify, it just generates a (temporary) little webpage that has event info on it.  It's not an app like Facebook where you'd do the sharing there, it relies on being shared via email, this WBWC email list, Facebook, etc.

By decoupling the event-details site from the disseminating aspect, events get shared via email (and social media, if desired) since there's not the assumption that because it's on Facebook, all will see it.

[Sorry for being off-topic, I'm done now]

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